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As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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02-19-2001, 09:02 AM
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Community Rank: Wayfarer 
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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Plucked from the audience
While looking over photos of my October 1991 trip to the World, I was reminded that while shopping in the shopes of the United Kingdom pavilion at Epcot, I literally stepped out of one of the stores to find that "Ye Olde Globe Players" had just asked for volunteers for a staging of "Romeo and Edna" and was plucked from the audience and put into the role of "Edna". I just remember being in shock, hardly able to say my lines because I was laughing so hard. I do remember that we (Romeo and Edna) had to die, alot of hand holding, hugging (with a total stranger, I might add), and a kissing scene where they stopped us just before it happened, and all this was in slow motion, if I remember correctly. What a hoot!
Anyone else been made part of the magic like that?
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02-19-2001, 11:44 AM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Orlando area via Chicago
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Re: Plucked from the audience
My brother volunteered to be a foley artist in the (long gone and much loved  ) Monster Sound Show. He was in charge of the lightning, wind and chandelier (sp?) crash. It was the funniest thing I had ever witnessed. Too bad you couldn't tape or take picts in there. He was running around the stage like a headless chicken. Of course, he missed the cue of the chandelier crash. You heard the crash about 5 seconds after you saw it. |
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02-19-2001, 01:22 PM
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Community Rank: Wayfarer
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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Re: Plucked from the audience
I really miss the Monster Sound Show too and always wished that I could have been chosen to be on stage for that. I bet it's alot harder to do than it looks (as your brother can probably attest to).
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02-20-2001, 03:32 PM
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Community Rank: Day-Tripper
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Lyndhurst, NJ
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Re: Plucked from the audience
I've been in Doug Live, on our last 2 trips, first as the drummer Chap Lipman and second as the bass player, can't remember his name. Both times it was a hoot.
The first time, we were in the front row and i jumped arounf like crazy when they called for volunteers. The second time, we were among the first in the door and the actress on stage pretty much started up a conversation with me from the get go. I was actually hoping to be able to sit and watch the show instead of spending it back stage getting into custome etc.
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02-20-2001, 03:48 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: virginia
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Re: Plucked from the audience
My parents were picked to be in the Superstar televison show (Anyone remember that show? I miss it. ) They played the couple having a drink at the bar in the Cheers skit. It was hilarious! My dad had to order a drink and joke around with the guy playing Sam. He totally got into it! I teased them about it for the rest of our trip, LOL! 
--Jacquelyn
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"Everybody has a laughing place"
Contemporary Resort 1993
Off Site 1994,2000
Coronado Springs 1999
Grand Floridian 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
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02-20-2001, 06:10 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Toms River, NJ
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Re: Plucked from the audience
Good topic
I remember the short lived 101 dalmatians ABC sound studio (I was obsessed with the show at the time), and my friend and i were chosen to be the voices of Horace and Jasper. On the same trip, he was chosen to be a shiek in the Indy Stunt Show (after doing some funky disco dance in the aisle)
They also used to have a green screen exhibit at Innoventions wheer one could be in a special segment from jay Leno, a sports report with Ahmad Rashad, or as a new student on Saved By the Bell. I remember watching my friend do this was the most hilarious thing
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02-20-2001, 07:38 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Bethlehem,Ct 06751
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Re: Plucked from the audience
TWICE-ON 2 SEPARATE TRIPS- MY SON WAS CHOSEN FOR SUPER STAR TELEVISION. THE 1ST-IN 1994(AGE 5) HE WAS GILLIGAN- MANNING THE MINNOW. THEN-2 YEARS LATER-HE WAS CHOSEN TO BE THE BASEBALL PLAYER WHO WAS INTERVIEWED BY HOWARD COSELL. THESE WERE VERY SPECIAL MEMORIES OF THESE TRIPS FOR US ALL. UNFORTUNATELY-TRY AS SHE MIGHT- MY DD NEVER GOT CHOSEN. WE WILL MISS SUPERSTAR TV WHEN WE RETURN TO WDW 8/01.
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02-20-2001, 08:00 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Ann Arbor, MI USA
Concierge Level: 6
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Re: Plucked from the audience
Jennifer and I have both been called into "service" at the Adventurers Club, many times (but then, we tend to spend many of our WDW evenings there). Now, AC is far more interactive than most of the other attractions listed here, so it's not nearly as special an honor as being one of the Beets at Doug Live, but....
There was the time several years ago when Jennifer (who always tries to manouver things so someone else sitting at our table is called upon) was chosen to be "Greta" during the Radio Show, two nights in a row! As she had to say (many times), "Eeeek!"
I've been called upon to hold up "Bessie" during the "Bessie the Heifer" number, done the bump and grind with Samantha Sterling, had the mic shoved in my face (again by Sam) to sing, "Those Were the Days," we've been heckled by the Colonel, Arnie and Claude.... and the beat goes on.
We were teased once from the Library stage for taking notes during a show, "Now, those people over there are Internet People. They're taking down everything I say, and by tomorrow it'll be up on the Internet!"
And that's why we love it so much!
So.... Who's hoping to get into the Hot Seat when Who Wants to be a Millionaire.... Play It! opens at Disney-MGM Studios in April?
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02-20-2001, 09:50 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: virginia
Posts: 658
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Re: Plucked from the audience
I think it would be cool to be chosen for the hot seat, although I'm sure I would humiliate myself! But, I guess, that's half the fun!
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02-20-2001, 11:06 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: The Colony, Texas
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Re: Plucked from the audience
Those are great stories!
I would love to get in the hotseat! (At WWTBAM!)
I was hoping it would be open for our trip in March. (I guess not.) Oh, well, there's another reason to go back again, and again, and again...
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June 1987 - off site
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02-21-2001, 08:53 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Connecticut
Concierge Level: 6
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Re: Plucked from the audience
I definitely want to get in the hotseat!!! Mushu1 and I know more useless facts than anyone really should. But I bet if I could get a chance to do the show in NY (which is what happens if you win a million in WDW) I wouldn't think they were so useless!!
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02-21-2001, 09:59 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Ann Arbor, MI USA
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Re: Plucked from the audience
Unfortunately, there was a misunderstanding about what happens if you win "a million" in the version at WDW (but then, so many details about this attraction have yet to be formally announced - it'll probably be changing up to the day it opens).
Currently, the understanding is that the big winners get a free trip to NY to attend the TV show taping, and maybe meet Regis. Folks won't become contestants on the TV show itself (drat!).
I got a peek at the set for the new attraction (soundstages 2 & 3) this past weekend, as part of the Backstage Pass attraction (anyone else visiting the Studios over the next couple of months might consider doing Backstage Pass just to see how things are coming along). The Millionaire set is looking fabulous! The audience seating has all been set up, as was most of the overhead lighting equipment. They hadn't set up the central stage, though. I'd figure it has to be finished soon, as I'm sure they'll want to do several weeks of rehearsal and tech run-throughs before the attraction opens officially on April 7.
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02-24-2001, 04:36 PM
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Wishing I was at WDW!
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Southwestern Florida, USA
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Re: Plucked from the audience
We were at Disney MGM - and my boys and husband all wanted to do something besides the Superstar show - so I told them to go on and I would meet them later - I stayed and waited around - hoping to get a chance to play Ethel or Lucy at the candy factory. Well - much to my disapointment, I did not get picked for either part. I was standing there - I am sure with a pout on my face - when they asked the lady in the red and white striped shirt - do you want to play in the soap opera part of the show? Well - was I going to say NO?????? So they gave me the part of the "nasty rich soap opera lady" - and I had a blast! The thing that bugged me though, - my family was not there to see me. When I met up with them later - I told them all about being picked and gave them a word for word account of the entire event. They could not believe it! And then they were sorry they were not there in the audience too! I am sorry that that particular show is no longer at Disney. It certainly had a huge following when we were there. Thanks for the memories!
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02-26-2001, 03:56 PM
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Community Rank: Traveler 
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Maplewood, OH
Posts: 226
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Re: Plucked from the audience
My husband and I were at Disney Studios in December. There was a street show going on with the "Hollywood Public Works" guys. They were hillarious, we laughed the entire time. They wanted to have a picture taken for their "Christmas Party" and they ended up pulling people out of the audience to be in the picture, and of course they came and dragged me away. My husband got some good pictures of it. It makes me laugh just thinking about it now.
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03-11-2001, 06:23 PM
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Community Rank: Passenger 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: San Juan, PR USA
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Re: Plucked from the audience
The first time I was ever plucked from the audience was at the Soundstage show at MGM. I was with two of my best friends from high school, just standing there waiting to go in. Then the CM guy starts picking people for the show. I've seen the show before so I knew he would be looking for three "girl group" singers..so when he got to that part my friends and I just started dancing in place. We must have looked so silly...but he did pick us.
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